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EP 1 288 951 A3 |
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EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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Date of publication A3: |
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01.10.2003 Bulletin 2003/40 |
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Date of publication A2: |
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05.03.2003 Bulletin 2003/10 |
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Date of filing: 29.08.2002 |
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Designated Contracting States: |
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AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE SK TR |
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Designated Extension States: |
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AL LT LV MK RO SI |
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Priority: |
03.09.2001 JP 2001266458
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Applicant: Pioneer Corporation |
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Meguro-ku, Tokyo (JP) |
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Inventor: |
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- Ogikubo, Takahiki, c/o Pioneer Corporation
Tokorozawa-shi, saitama (JP)
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Representative: Haley, Stephen |
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Gill Jennings & Every, Broadgate House, 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH
London EC2M 7LH (GB) |
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Information record and playback apparatus and computer program |
(57) An information record and playback apparatus has a user information acquisition unit
for acquiring user information of the user using the apparatus at present; a record
unit for recording the acquired user information and playback stop position information
on a record medium in relation to each other; and a playback start control unit for
selecting the playback stop position information corresponding to the acquired user
information from among the playback stop position information read from the record
medium and resuming playing back the record medium based on the selected playback
stop position information.